We welcome abstracts of 300 words in length, which should be directed to the conference organizers ([log in to unmask]) and to ourselves: Rebecca Elliott ([log in to unmask]) and Zac Taylor ([log in to unmask]). The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday, March 10.

We hope to see many of you in Leeds!

Rebecca Elliott, London School of EconomicsZac Taylor, University of Leeds

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Locating Climate Vulnerabilities at the Urban Crossroads

As the climate changes, spaces of social, economic, and environmental vulnerability in cities are opened up, deepened, or otherwise transformed. Mounting calls to retrofit urban sites and systems to meet the uneven and expansive demands of sea level rise, stronger storms, warmer temperatures, and other climatic forces increasingly collide with new and old claims to the urban, at times mending constellations of action and at others splintering the city along various fault lines. In this session, we seek to advance a critical urban research agenda that can conceptualize — and critically engage with — the evolving ways in which climate vulnerabilities are experienced, mobilized, and managed within and across urban contexts.

We invite critical, empirically grounded, and conceptually robust research from any urban context and disciplinary background, and welcome early career scholars. Researchers are encouraged to submit paper ideas in the form of a short abstract. Proposals might consider one or more of (but are not limited to) the following:

How vulnerabilities evolve at the crossroads between specific urban interventions aimed at mitigating or adapting to climatic forces (e.g. policy efforts, infrastructure projects);